The "What?" Generation

[MyKotoShi]

Well what have we all been sticking around for? Early on there was no certainty the game would improve so drastically. This isn't something you can look back from previous experiences from another MMO and say, "It'll be aright, they'll just scrub the entire game and remake it." Who's done that?

I don't have intentions to make us look better over the future generation of players, but we've as a community has come face-to-face with hardships from a video game that should never had been present. The forums haven't just been invaded by ponies, but hate and anger through the months. We've complained, we trolled, we expressed our joy and disappointment. And through it all the FFXIV team listened.

We're the voice of this game, and those of you who don't think that in itself is something remarkable then I'm kind of disappointed.

[Ixador]

"The generation that never was" :P If you get me

[Griss]

Very simply we will truly be The Old Guard

[Shipp]

The 2.0 players won't refer to any of us as anything special. Why? Same reason nobody praises those of us who were in the first few shells to kill Dynamis Lord when he was actually hard. Same reason nobody praises vanilla WoW players. There's no point. If anything, it will be derogatory since XIV 2.0 looks far better than anything introduced so far.

They've been making good changes, but still, new players starting in 2.0 will just think, "God, how could they have played this when it was crap?" That's regardless of whether YOU personally think it's crap or not, before the endless, "FFXIV isn't crap," posts start.

[Atoli]

As much as I love the beautiful words Kotoshi finds for us, Blarp is right xD
I experienced exactly what he said waaaay too many times in other MMORPGs to not know he's right.
And even though I didn't rub it the new players in the face, by myself I thought:
"I had to bear a time when there were no quests."
"I played this game when it took you months to reach lvl 70 because all you could ever do was grinding, since there was no content at all, and now you do it in 3 days with all your petty exp scrolls and stuff."
"I was already a healer when there was no equipment for healers at all and no auto-heal and I kept people alive by actually PLAYING and concentrating for hours!"
Well, stuff like that
And I just KNOW I'll be thinking the same when FFXIV2.0 hits the servers.

[grandm]

the new players in 2.0 might not call ppl from now anything. but ppl from now might call other ppl from now something

[neorei]

2.0 will be at awe at us when they get into the game.

[Naylia]

Vintage??? ....or Dated?

[Atoli]

...or Dated?

I don't want to be called dated T_T
In the version I am playing, "dated" became "†", which is the sign used to imply someone is dead..

[XxOstiaxX]

Depends on what happens once 2.0 launches, if its good "GREAT!" If its bad, then you be called generation stupid....